Lord Byron Quotes
Few things surpass old wine; and they may preach Who please, the more because they preach in vain.
Quotes to Explore
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When you have children love is always there in the best form.
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People don't usually compliment your character.
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Since I achieved something, running has exploded in my country. For me sometimes it is difficult even to know who the athletes are who are competing at the highest level. There are thousands.
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You know you're getting fat when you step on the dog's tail and he dies.
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True friends will pick you up when you fall. The bad friends will have been the one who made you fall in the first place.
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Almost anything can be improved with the addition of bacon.
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It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken.
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When asked what the stock market will do: It will fluctuate.
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Okay, when you start to fight for equality, like Anand did in 1995, you could end up losing game 10, like he did, without putting up any kind of fight.
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If he failed the first time he took his driver's licence test, it was mainly because he started an argument with the examiner in an ill-timed effort to prove that nothing could be more humiliating to a rational creature than being required to encourage the development of a base conditional reflex by stopping at a red light when there was not an earthly soul around, heeled or wheeled. He was more circumspect the next time, and passed.
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It is not my place in society that makes me well off, but my judgements, and these I can carry with me... These alone are my own and cannot be taken away.
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I have yet to figure out whether it is I am that am crazy, or the world.
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Nothing makes one so vain as being told one is a sinner. Conscience makes egotists of us all.
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We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain.
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When some say that good works are forbidden when we preach faith alone, it is as if I said to a sick man: "If you had health, you would have the use of all your limbs; but without health, the works of all your limbs are nothing"; and he wanted to infer that I had forbidden the works of all his limbs.
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All we had was her room, her stories, and the quiet that settled in as we tried in vain to spread ourselves out and fill the space she'd left behind.
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To turn a human being into a part-canine or lupine creature takes a good deal of artistry and money.
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Few things surpass old wine; and they may preach Who please, the more because they preach in vain.
